Ubuntu – vi shortcut to delete “until the next X character”

vim

I understand that vi has shortcut keys to delete characters, words and lines with various options.

However, I could not find this:

For example, I might type du" expecting the editor to "delete until the next " character is found"

The closest I know is d9w where 9 is the number of words to delete.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Use dtc, where c is any character, e.g. for you, you want dt"

This will delete upto but not including c.

If you had:

delete until exclamation point!

And the cursor was at the first space and you typed dt!, you would get:

delete!

Also dfc.

This will delete upto and including c.

Using df! on the same example above would give you:

delete

Just about any "motion" can be used for the d, c, y and similar commands.